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Victor Reglero, Marco Barbera, Eric H. Silver, Elia Liebowitz, Noah Brosch, Salvatore Sciortino, Alfonso Collura, Hagai Netzer, Niels J. Westergaard, Herbert W. Schnopper, Suzanne Romaine, Christine Jones, William R. Forman, Jeffery Beeman, Juan Fabregat, Stephen S. Murray, Eugene E. Haller, Norman W. Madden, Simon R. Bandler, Alvaro Giménez, and Finn E. Christensen
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Physics ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,X-ray ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Cosmology ,law.invention ,Baryon ,Telescope ,Orbit ,Space and Planetary Science ,law ,Intergalactic travel ,High energy resolution ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Galaxy cluster - Abstract
The X-Ray Spectroscopic Explorer (XRASE) has a unique combination of features that will make it possible to address many of NASA's scientific goals. These include how galaxy clusters form, the physics and chemistry of the ISM, the heating of stellar coronae, the amount and content of intergalactic baryonic matter, the mass of black holes and the formation of disks and jets in AGN and galactic binaries. XRASE has a thin foil, multilayered telescope with a large collecting area up to 10 keV, especially in the Fe Kα region (1100 cm2). Its microcalorimeter array combines high energy resolution (7 eV at 6 keV) and efficiency with a field-of-view of 26 arcmin2 . A deep orbit allows for long, continuous observations. Monitoring instruments in the optical (WOM-X), UV (TAUVEX) and hard X-RAY (GRAM) bands will offer exceptional opportunities to make simultaneous multi-wavelength observations.
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- 2001